Thomas Alfred Davies

Thomas Alfred Davies (3 December 1809-19 August 1899) was a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Thomas Alfred Davies was born in Black Lake, St. Lawrence County, New York in 1809, and he graduated from West Point in 1829. He worked as a civil engineer and merchant in New York City until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, when he became colonel of the 16th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He led a brigade at the First Battle of Bull Run before becoming a Brigadier-General with the Army of the Tennessee in the west, engaging in the fighting around Corinth, Mississippi; he was nearly dismissed for having Island Number Ten destroyed. He was mustered out on 24 August 1865, and he was successful in real estate after the war. He died in 1899.